joining us now the ceo and founder of 5-hour energy. the federal officials say that your drink is cited in reports linking it to 13 deaths in this country. what can you say about that? >> actually it is a ridiculous claim because to say something is linked, it would be like saying you know, if you drank a bottled water today and thousands of people died the next day, that somehow it is linked. if you look deeper into it you will find there is really no cause, there's no, you know, people that, you know, had diseases to begin with, then three days later, they died, had nothing to do with anything. or they are folks just trying to collect some money. one of the big things is people are africa mean but, actually, for example, starbucks the large starbucks has twice the caffeine that we have. now, not to throw starbucks under the because caffeine actually is a good thing. the only, you know, things that we get about caffeine are from reporters who really have no clue about what caffeine does. caffeine, yes, go ahead. jon: even "the times" r